The Why Behind the How
A core mission of the Demarco Webster Jr Foundation is to calm the grief process. We strive to educate individuals, families, and communities about the truths of grief, common myths, and equip them with practical, healthy coping skills. Our biggest hope is to empower everyone to navigate their unique journey of loss with knowledge and resilience, fostering natural healing and a hopeful adjustment to their new life. We envision a world where grief is understood, supported, and processed in a healthy way.
Akesha widow mother of three surviving children. Akesha grew up on the West side of Chicago in Rockwell Gardens, later moving into Ogden Courts subsidized housing as a young teenage girl. She's the second oldest of five daughters. Akesha has always been a hero even at a young age. Caring for her younger siblings while her late mother returned back to school to obtain her G.E.D. at age forty-two
Today, Akesha thrives as a hero in the lives of many, including other modern day heroines.
Akesha has worked over ten years as a Youth Advocate with kids in the foster home system, from damage homes and teen parents as a support, teaching them better life skills and assisting them with social development. Akesha is a certified, licensed Life Coach and Woman of Faith who has endured significant loss and faced various life changing challenges throughout her own life and has overcome each of them, "still standing strong." Her zeal to become a solution emerged after losing her son the late Demarco Webster Jr. who was tragically killed in a drive-by shooting just 12 days after his fourteenth birthday. Transforming her pain into a mission. Akesha, Founder and CEO of the "Demarco Webster Jr. Foundation, Grief Support Services" focuses on providing emotional and practical support for those needing help coping with the loss of a loved one.
